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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Forensic report loops are a problem

Steven M Jones <smj@crash.com> Thu, 28 January 2021 03:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Forensic report loops are a problem
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On 1/27/21 19:08, John R Levine wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>>> I still don't understand why failure reports about messages that
>>> happen to be failure reports are in any way special.
>>
>> Loop detection in RFC 5321 is a normative MUST because of the obvious
>> operational problems it creates.  Maybe I'm being thick, but right now I
>> don't see how this is different, apart from the fact that each
>> message is
>> distinct; ...
>
> Here's perhaps another way to look at it.
>
> ...
>
> B) Someone slaps me upside the head and I fix my SPF record so my
> reports are sent correctly.
>
> This does not strike me as a hard problem.


It's not a hard problem. I see the last sentence in Section 3.3 as
reserving the right to deliver that slap...

--S.

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